core curriculum

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word core curriculum. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word core curriculum, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say core curriculum in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word core curriculum you have here. The definition of the word core curriculum will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofcore curriculum, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Noun

core curriculum (plural core curricula or core curriculums)

  1. (education) The courses or other components of an educational program which are foundational, prerequisite, or mandatory, as opposed to the elective, secondary, or variable components of a program.
    • 1923, James M. Glass, “The Reorganization of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Grades—Program of Studies”, in The School Review, volume 31, number 7, pages 523–524:
      The senior high school, if free to concentrate on intensive specialized courses and a core curriculum of constants, will consummate the socially integrating influences of the elementary school.
    • 1991, David M. Bossman, “Cross-Cultural Values for a Pluralistic Core Curriculum”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 62, number 6, page 662:
      Thus, the undergraduate core curriculum is a college's foundational education, a developing lens that effectively focuses issues of whatever sort and projects them, so focused, onto a community screen as conventional wisdom.
    • 2007, Anne C. Lewis, “Language Learning and National Security”, in Phi Delta Kappan, volume 89, number 2, page 84:
      Even the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act includes foreign languages as part of a core curriculum.

Translations

See also

Further reading